Founders

We believe in results with smart Hiring.

At Knowledge Capital, we believe that real business growth is driven by a highly motivated and skilled team. Our Founders are both entrepreneurs in the Food industry, and have seen what it takes to be succesfull.

Our approach blends deep industry insight, extensive experience, and strategic thinking to solve complex challenges, innovation, and deliver measurable, lasting business value.

Start-up experience
Recruitment Experience
Food exerience
The Team

Meet the team behind Knowledge Capital

Michiel Dekkers
Co Founder
Rudi Dieleman
Co Founder
Our Mission

We help Food-sector investors create both financial return and lasting knowledge

In essence, Knowledge Capital’s daily focus is on aligning investors, experts, and young professionals to accelerate start-ups/scale-ups growth through knowledge-based team development, turning financial capital into knowledge capital.

Placing experienced professionals (“Masters”) and young talents (“Apprentices”) inside start-up/scale-up companies.
Conducting business scans and growth assessments (using the Gritd - Startup Framework model) to identify gaps in product, market, business model, finance and team.
Developing and implementing tailored acceleration and team-growth plans to strengthen start-ups/scale-ups at each funding stage.
Our VISION

Shaping The Future of Food innovations

We want to build an ecosystem where investment gives companies access to knowledge, creating sustainable growth and innovation.

The Speed of scaling in the start-up/scale-up NL environment is too slow.
The lack of team related focus from an investor's perspective needs to be solved.

With the use of Knowledge Capital, start-ups/scale-ups scale faster and more consistent. Basically, Management Team's don't have to worry about team related hires anymore. 

Need for a healthier start-up culture in the Netherlands.
Investors seek smarter capital deployment.
Experts are looking to use their knowledge to make an impact.
Universities produce eager graduates needing mentorship.

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